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Horizons textbook


Chapter 1 - The Modern Age

1.) Introduction - Guns, Germs, and Steel (part 1)
2.) The Renaissance - Kings Gain Power, A Prosperous Age, A New View of Humanity, A New View of the World

Chapter 2 - English Civil War

1.) English Geography
2.) English Society in the 17th Century
3.) The Stuarts
4.) The Civil War
5.) The Triumph of Parliament

Chapter 3 - French Revolution

1.) French Geography
2.) French Society in the 17th Century
3.) Louis XIV & XVI
4.) The Enlightment
5.) The French Revolution
6.) The Reign of Terror

Chapter 4 - Napoleonic Era

1.) Early Career
2.) Making France Strong
3.) The Emperor
4.) Napoleon & Europe
5.) Abdication & Exile

Chapter 5 - Industrial Revolution

1.) Intro - Dickens' Oliver Twist
1.) Why Britain?
2.) Agricultural Revolution
3.) Economic Revolution
4.) Transportation
5.) Factory System
6.) Society & Culture

Chapter 6 - Regional Geography of North America

1.) Appalachian Region
2.) Coastal Plains
3.) Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowland
4.) Interior Plains
5.) Canadian Shield
6.) Western Cordillera
7.) Intermountain Region
8.) Arctic

Chapter 7 - First Nations People of North America

1.) Inuit
2.) Iroquois
3.) Peoples of the Plains
4.) Peoples of the Plateau
5.) Peoples of the Coast

Chapter 8 - Arrival in Canada

1.) The Vikings
2.) European Explorers
3.) The Founding of New France - Samuel de Champlain
4.) Settlement & Colonization - Jesuit Missionaries, Coureurs de Bois
5.) The Royal Province of New France - first government, Seigneuries, habitants, women
6.) The Seven Years' War

Chapter 9 - Canada Moves West

1.) Hudson's Bay Company
2.) North West Company - voyageurs
3.) Western Canada Exploration - Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson, Alex Fraser, James Cook, George Vancouver
4.) Women in the Fur Trade

Chapter 10 - American Rev & British North America

1.) After the Fall of Quebec - British rule, sentiments, Quebec Act
2.) The American Revolution
3.) British North America - Constitutional Act of 1791, pioneeers, John Graves Simcoe
4.) The War of 1812